About this website
Posted on 2008-04-27 00:18:59
Now for some things about this website..
I've been learning Python, and Django in the past few weeks, and as part of the learning process I needed some practice, thus I decided to build this website from scratch instead of just going with wordpress. I'm pretty happy with out it turned out, and the experience was really usefull. Anyway, let's move along..
Python is very easy language to pick up, the syntax is very clean and there are a lot of open source projects and code examples around. I used diveintopython, a free online book (but also available commercially) to get my first look at the language.
I then started with Django, and went trough to the tutorial, but I recomend you to take a look at the free online book first. The Documentation is also worth very much to take a look at, and it's noticeable that a lot of effort was made in this part aswell.
On to the technical part, I decided to use the auto admin in Django (why wouldn't I) and a very very good tagging app. On a side note, you can find a lot of very useful plugins/apps in www.djangopluggables.com. I also used Nuno Mariz code for friendfeed integrating my Google reader shared feeds and flickr account. The rest was up to me, not much at this point as well, but the objectives were met: implement views, templates, forms and raw sql. I also decided to use sqlite as database, which is natively supported by python.
On the hosting part, my inexperience with setting up production servers, and the fact that I don't have that many projects to host, were the only things preventing me to buy a slice at slicehost, but the excellent articles were reason enough to venture in this area as well. The very good feedback that floats around in the web about them is true, it's really a great service and it is worth to take a look at even if you are considering shared hosting.
So that's it, I will probably release the source code sometime. It is very simple, but in the meantime if someone is interested you can just drop me an email at mlouro _at_ zolbe dot com and I will happily send it.
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